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Really basic stuff I just can’t remember

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Emilywiththegreeneyes · 19/07/2024 07:14

Gross and Net. I can never remember which one relates to which figure and it’s especially annoying as I quite often have to discuss net and gross figures with clients. I don’t know why, I could check a thousand times and still never remember.

Same with Verbs, nouns, etc, which one is which FFS!

There are definitely other things but I’ve forgotten those too.

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sanityisamyth · 20/07/2024 08:27

Wallywobbles · 20/07/2024 06:37

Loose & lose for me. No idea how to remember which is which.

Lose
Loser
Lost

All one o

sanityisamyth · 20/07/2024 08:24

Mummadeze · 20/07/2024 06:48

I have lots of these. Left v right. Times tables. How to spell diarrhea (just had to look it up, still not sure if it’s right). Republican v democrat. Am sure there’s more too!

Diarrhoea

Gingernaut · 20/07/2024 08:08

ApocalypseNowt · 19/07/2024 07:33

I struggle with knife and fork. I have to have a think and then remember that the stabby one is the knife.....

Stabby one for pinning down food for cutting up is the fork

Cutty up one is the knife

Scarletrunner · 20/07/2024 08:04

My brain flips the signs painted on the road - so W O L S -I immediately think it’s telling me to slow down but it’s the other lane -always have to correct myself

Mummadeze · 20/07/2024 06:48

I have lots of these. Left v right. Times tables. How to spell diarrhea (just had to look it up, still not sure if it’s right). Republican v democrat. Am sure there’s more too!

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Emilywiththegreeneyes · 20/07/2024 06:41

Oh god, sorry I didn’t mean to write this then just ignore all the responses. It’s been funny reading all the replies this morning, especially the argument about gross and net 🤣

So many people have the left and right thing.y husband definitely does. Which is really annoying when he’s trying to give me directions in the car. I’ve learnt to pretty much always go the opposite way to what he says.

Knife and fork is a new one on me though.

I did just remember another one. Left wing and right wing. It’s taken me looonng time to remember which is which. I have it now, although I do need a quick mental check each time it comes up. I find I prefer to just avoid politics in general, don’t have to worry about it then.

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Jewelanemone · 20/07/2024 06:40

I struggle with digital times. If someone says to me 'It's 4:53' I have to visualise it on an analogue clock otherwise I'm not sure how close it is to 5 o'clock 🫤

Wallywobbles · 20/07/2024 06:37

Loose & lose for me. No idea how to remember which is which.

Jewelanemone · 20/07/2024 06:33

Namechangedasouting987 · 19/07/2024 07:48

I cannot spell deodorant for the life of me... and it's and its always makes me double check.
I didn't used to get words like defence and defense or licence and license until I wrote my rules on a post it note on my PC...
And it don't think I will ever understand effective and affective.

Same for me with deodorant. I also struggle with occasionally and aeroplane.

SkyView · 20/07/2024 06:22

I'm sure I have some sort of processing disorder, so nodding away to some of these. Turns out, we have Dyslexia in the family - wish I'd bloody known that before. Hmm

Like PP, I struggle to remember how many single or double letters in words like necessary & occasionally.

Another thing I have ishoos with is the pronunciation of long words Blush Like identifying the sounds & putting them in the right places with the right emphasis. What's that called?

I have a mental block on saying phenomenal & get the n's + m mixed up Confused

scalt · 20/07/2024 06:10

Gross means twelve dozen (but most people know it as a childish word for “disgusting”); in most cases, a fairly “big”
amount. So gross is big, net is smaller.

I like to amuse my pupils by telling them what gross means. “How many gross shall we deliver?”

autienotnaughti · 20/07/2024 06:06

Definitely verbs nouns etc. also types of rock - igneous etc.

I can't remember how to spell library either.

Hoistupthemainsail · 20/07/2024 05:19

Or net is not including tax (net/not).

MessinaBloom · 20/07/2024 01:36

PuttingDownRoots · 19/07/2024 07:34

Clock changes. I know they go forward in Spring and backwards in autumn.

I just can't process whether it means more or less sleep that night!

I think about it as going back into the dark (autumn), then forwards into the light (spring).

Setorrunny · 20/07/2024 00:05

My neighbour has a phd in molecular biochemistry. We got drunk the other night and she said she can’t do telling the time on a normal clock, thinks sundials are “cod” and doesn’t always get “before and after”. I laughed so hard I was nearly weeping. Massive brain, misfiring.

she also lost her car in marks and sorcery Gemini Warrington and reported it stolen. She had just come through another door.

Apileofballyhoo · 20/07/2024 00:00

Custardandrhubarbcrumble · 19/07/2024 09:02

I think of finite being in the middle of definitely.

I have a mental block with the word occasion and always misspell it and allow autocorrect to do it's thing.

I also get stuck on principle versus principal too.

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Blueroses99 · 19/07/2024 23:45

I can’t spell itinerary (thank god for autocorrect else I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what word I can’t spell)

Arcadia · 19/07/2024 18:07

I still use the knuckles of my hand to work out how many days there are in each month. You start at the forefinger knuckle - 31 days for a knuckle and 30 days for a gap in between knuckles (except for February), go back to the start when you get to the end of your hand!

Can never remember the name of Primark.

HelpMeGetThrough · 19/07/2024 17:25

I think I understand the offside rule. Asking me to judge in the moment whether someone was offside, not in a million years.

My youngest has tried several times to explain it to me. Nope, it doesn't sink in.

He can do it in the moment, but he's an FA referee, so I guess a bit of a must for him.

merryhouse · 19/07/2024 16:48

Look, it's very simple. The inside lane is the one on the outside.

(after 30 years of people talking at me about it, I'm almost at the point where I'm comfortable with "the inside lane", but it still pisses me off. Still have to ask H every time he talks about nearside...)

On the other hand (ha), I don't even have the concept of muddling left and right.

I think I understand the offside rule. Asking me to judge in the moment whether someone was offside, not in a million years.

Chemenger · 19/07/2024 15:53

Intellectually I know left and right, but if I don’t stop to think I will get it wrong about 75% of the time (worse than just randomly guessing). Satnav has saved our marriage because my map reading is excellent but I can’t translate it into reliable directions.

Devilsmommy · 19/07/2024 12:31

JoanThursday · 19/07/2024 12:16

Poor @Devilsmommy 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣

PuppyMonkey · 19/07/2024 12:23

I always go a bit Confused when people talk about the inside lane and the outside lane of a motorway. Just call it the slow lane and the fast lane and then I know what you mean.

JoanThursday · 19/07/2024 12:16

Poor @Devilsmommy 😂

Makinglists · 19/07/2024 12:09

Never, Eat, Shredded, wheat.....every time I have to think east or west....I have an alevel in geography and an environmental degree - I should know but still stand there going never, eat....

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